Reads tagged with “art”
How Van Gogh Found His Purpose: Heartfelt Letters to His Brother on How Relationships Refine Us
“Does what goes on inside show on the outside? Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.”
Little Red Riding Hood, Reimagined in Unusual Die-Cut Illustrations
“What big eyes you have!”
Maria Merian’s Butterflies: The Illustrated Story of How a 17th-Century Woman Forever Changed the Course of Science Through Art
A heartening homage to a courageous woman who fought superstition with science and love.
Artist Francis Bacon’s Conflicted and Creative Life, Illustrated
“It’s all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.”
MacArthur Geniuses on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Creativity
“Cut short of the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes. Cheat on the chaotic stumbling-about, and you’ve robbed yourself of the raw stuff that feeds the imagination.”
Our Fraught Relationship with Time, in Clever Minimalist Illustrations
A witty visual meditation on our comical control strategies, the predictability of modern life, and our constant tussle with productivity and presence.
The Only True and Durable Antidote to Violence: Composer Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Response to JFK’s Assassination
“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Where Ideas Come From, the “Secret” of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
“All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.”
The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature: Comic Artists Reimagine Beloved Childhood Classics, from Tolstoy’s Fairy Tales to Harry Potter
“One sign of a great work of literature or art is that it can be interpreted multiple ways, that it remains ambiguous, refusing to provide clear-cut answers.”
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